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Summary Of Re-Composing Space: Composition's Rhetorical Geography '

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In, “Re-composing Space: Composition’s Rhetorical Geography,” Roberta Binkley and Marissa Smith explore the “limitations and implications” that the geographical spaces of rhetoric have on the discipline in six sections. (Smith 46) In the first section after the introduction, the authors speak about the system of spaces of knowledge that Plato and Aristotle set up in ancient Athens that excluded women, slaves and non-citizens. This ideology of exclusion is the underlying of composition studies. “the production of knowledge involves both the exclusion of knowledge…” (Smith 48) The second section addresses the world view that that Aristotle brought to the rhetoric tradition. Built in a time of slavery and male dominance, this section suggests

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